Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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UU l932 BASKETBALL TEAM HU --cv--f ..,- Y, ,f .-4f'l.. ' 'A f q'7 ..,:Q. , 1- Q ' ,. s , i i l CAPT. DAN KELLEHER COACH NEIL COHALAN MANAGER ED. MURPHY BASKETBALL I93I-32 HE convicfion fhaf Manhaffan is now firmly esfablished in an era of superlafive baskefball feams, widespread among afhlefically-minded Manhaffanifes, received furfher confirmafion by fhe splendid showing of fhe Green courf feam of I93 I-32. Neil Cohalan, whose feafs on courf, gridiron, diamond and frack are so much of a Manhaffan fradifion fhaf fhey are virfually inferwoven info Alma lVlafer's coaf of arms, guided fhe feam for his fhird successive season. The performance of his charges fully upheld fhe paramounf of excellence inaugurafed by fhelr predecessors of fhe lasf fwo years. The sfafisfics of fhe season, which, affer all, are of liffle imporfance, for whaf counfs is fhaf fhe feam waged a successful campaign, reveal fhaf fhe Jasper courfmen ' ' ' ' fdffffereihf fasfed fhe sweefs of vicfory fhlrfeen fumes and felf fhe sfing o e ea a g engagemenfs. To plunge furfher info fhe sea of compufafion and fo quofe more of fhe variefy of lies lcnown as sfafisfics, baslcefballs fossed by lvlanhaffan hands whisked fhrough fhe hoop for a season's fofal of 620 poinfs, while fhe opponenfs were forced fo con- fenf fhemselves wifh a measly 5l6. And lasf season's record brings Neil Cohalan's 273

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BASKETBALL TEAM I932

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. ,ii a I' T 1:1 E I 9 3. Q fffg ff Q if ,, fl , , 711, y . f ,ff f ff, -W-ff fy ff fax f f f . if I 1 , 'ifflfiff T-'G' , , 'TZ ' , I ,V ,,,,. JACK MCCORMICK DONK KELLEI-IER DON SMITH Three year baTTing average To .742 I43 vicTories and I5 deTeaTsI-a very personable Tigure. Though To alibi a season oT such preeminenTIy TavorabIe resuITs is superTIuous, neverTheIess The TempTaTion To assuage, or raTher To deride, The seIT-appoinTed side- Iine experTs who proTessed To be disappoinTed aT The miserabIe showing oT The Team is Too sTrong To resisT. Several eIemenTs conspired To prevenT The Green Tive Trom equaIIing iTs phenomenaI record oT The previous year, noT IeasT oT which was The inexorable Law oT Averages. ThaT briIIianT achievemenT oT going Through a nineTeen game schedule wiTh Two soIiTary deTeaTs included no inconsiderabIe number, six or seven aT IeasT, of uncom- TorTabIy cIose games. IT invariably happened ThaT I:aTe wouId incIine Towards The Jaspers when They had Their backs againsT The TiguraTive waII. So iT mighT be said ThaT in The pasT season The IiTTIe ball oT chance became so eccenTric as To bounce in -and Then ouT oT-ManhaTTan's hole, insTead oT in-To sTay. The absence oT pasT masTers oT The game made no IiTTIe gap buT. HGVGVIIWG' Iess, The squad ThaT winTer day embraced a Tew men possessing courT savoir Taire. There were avaiIabIe CapTain Dan KeIIeher-Donk, To you-The pivoT-shoT specidIiSJf. Johnnie McCormick, The deadIy siege gun Trom The ouTer ranges, and Bob Leonard. The deTensive Ieech-a sTrong enough nucleus Tor any Team To buiId around. Incl- denTaIIy, These men have since made Their adieux To Alumni I-IaII, aII Three winding up Their careers as members oT The Green quinTeT in Three disTincT, yeT concerTed. blazes oT gIory. I I I- - I s T of f I 'J - Lf T I'-1 1- ig IJ L 'I L, I- f'Lf9:is.iiggfiaf4g1T.11ff',:. 1-'wk 274